Re: ptf download confusion

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim

Since you have the high-speed download, maybe do the FTP download. 
Put the images on one machine into image catalog. Now, do I remember 
right? that you can use Management Central in iSeries Navigator to do 
PTFs on several machines? I'm not at a PC with Navigator on it, so 
can't verify. Otherwise, copy the images around your systems in some 
efficient manner and repeat above.

HTH
Vern

At 08:22 AM 11/4/2007, you wrote:

> >> It went thru the normal checking which ptfs needed, then started the big
> >> download. Finished the download hour later, did the PTF opt 8 to load
> >> from
> > *service, and no ptfs found to load.
> Sorry I wasn't more specific - I did select the option to check all the ptfs
> to send,
> and did see it doing that. Have a high speed connect, but it seems like if
> the
> download exceeds a certain "time" it marks it as "mail" and disconnects. The
> only
> reason I say this is in my case, it did the select, started the download of
> ptfs needed,
> put a large # of ptfs ti the qibm directory, but at some point disconnected
> & marked
> the request as "mailed".
> I have several more machines to do and wanting to determine if the download
> option has such a limit, and with the v5r4 cume getting so large, if
> updating a machine
> at an old cume level, may have to change plans (i love the direct download,
> so
> easy to start remotely).
> jim franz